Totally Uncool Kanye

Dan DeLuca

Music Critic

Dan DeLuca is an Inquirer pop music critic. But his "In the Mix" column in the Weekend section ventures further afield, into books, movies, TV, the Internet, graphic novels and anything you might call "popular culture."

Kanye West made a fool out of himself at the MTV VMA Awards on Sunday night, picking on poor 19 year old Taylor Swift by jumping up on stage at Radio City Music Hall during her Best Female Video award speech for "You Belong To Me." The cruel brute grabbed the mic out of the hand of the pride of Wyomissing, Pa. and yelled "Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! One of the best videos of all all time!," referring to "Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)," before his microphone was killed. Not quite a Joe Wilson moment, but c'mon, Kanye, show a little class. Boo!

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